Sichuan online reporter wang daiqiang, yuan zhuong, tsai yang, zhang haibo
Speaking of pastures, you might think first of all of the regions of quixuan, inner mongolia, northwestern kawakawa. Recently, however, journalists found in dae-sung town, seon-han county, sichuandar state, that the mountains were in the depths of the mountain and that thousands of acres of pastures had come out。
“july and october are harvest seasons each year.” early in the morning of 16 october, villagers zhang jian carried a sickle and left their homes behind their backs, bypassed the village council and travelled about two kilometres back to the hill to reach the pasture base. She came to check on the herd and to make final preparations for the harvest that began immediately。
On average, the hillside is more than 400 metres above sea level, and several large white words are particularly visible in the “mac of good-quality grazing ground”. Under the placards, green and purple pastures are sown in the surrounding grass. Unlike the low pastures we normally see in the highlands, the grass can grow to more than two metres high, the leaves are smooth, nearly an inch wide, and it looks like a sugar cane forest。
How did a hill village build a pasture base? Locking up the party secretary of the village party from shindo: the village has a long history of raising cattle, but in the past they were scattered, small and inefficient. In 2017, villagers zhang yong-seo set up the first 20-headed cattle farm in the village, which ignited the enthusiasm for cattle。
There were a lot of cattle, and the lack of enough grass was a major problem. “in addition to feeding cattle and weeds, people went up to the mountains to cut the grass, the grass, and even the leaves of the valley were emptied.” zhang yong-seo recalled that the lack of pasture had once constrained the development of the cattle industry in the village。
"we used to grow grass, which was 50 and 60 centimetres tall." "now it's out." since 2021, thanks to a coordinated village partnership between the east and west, the zhejiang guarantee group ltd. Has been investing on an ongoing basis in the cultivation of cattle and grass that locks the villages。
Through the help of the group, experts were asked to survey the terrain, select grass, sort out land on the edges of the land, vacant land behind the front house, and plant new pastures, extending from 120 acres in 2022 to nearly 700 acres today. "there's sweet elephant grass, caucasian one, etc." in the light of the above, the rye is collected only once a year, and these new varieties receive at least twice a year, with higher yields and water content. One acre of grass used to feed only one cow and now two。
Under village leadership, the livestock industry in the villages has developed rapidly and has been radioactively boosted by the planting of more than 12,000 acres in neighbouring villages such as the beach, the kiln and berlin. The establishment of standardized farms in the villages where the cattle-headed company has taken root has attracted more than 10,000 villagers from the surrounding villages to work in grass-growing processing enterprises or cattle farms, with an annual increase of 3,000 per capita. The number of cattle raised in the village has also increased from over 50 in 2021 to over 600 today。
The industry is good, but it's cool。
Grassland bases have been established, roads and other infrastructure are weak, and harvesting transport remains difficult. The village is actively engaged in land rehabilitation projects and plans are under way to acquire equipment, such as excavators, to optimize and build roads, with the collaboration of the east and west departments of zhejiang。
The timing of herb harvesting is critical: cutting early is not required, and cutting late is of poor quality. In addition to supplying cattle to our village and surroundings, what about the extra pastures? Outside the village council, journalists saw that the straw collection points built by the village's collective investment had been put into operation, and a pack of processed grains of grass had been stacked and were awaiting distribution. “every year during the harvest season, we reach out to distributors, including many out-of-provincial clients.” a village official said。
Some of the “end-of-life” stock of grass is piled up at the point of storage, some of which have rotted. Some farmers have said that they have to return their goods because they have eaten the herbs, and they have to do so, such as diarrhea. Local agricultural technicians have indicated that this is a temporary adaptation issue and are actively contacting provincial and municipal agro-pastoral science and technology units, building expert workstations and using scientific methods to solve technical difficulties and reduce adaptation periods。
"what about the market for pastures? It's the cattle market." he said that his greatest concern was the volatility of the cattle market, which could affect grazing and harvesting. The construction of the first cow breeding base in the north-east of the country, built by a heifer farm on the ground, is now intensifying and is expected to be operational by the end of the year, with a capacity of more than 400 cattle per year, which will contribute to the further expansion of cattle breeding in the town and increase market voice。
He calculated the size of the whole town's cattle farming, which now stands at 13,000 bovine cattle, and the size of the town's bovine cattle farming, calculated on the basis of an acre of pastures available for two cows. “the considerable area of pasture cultivation, which can be used as a source of material to support the growth of local cattle and cattle farming, as well as for the marketing of products, has a stronger basis for the sustainable development of the pasture industry.”。
